Reviews
Mar Afora
Over the last three decades, Portuguese jazz singer (and former black-belt aikido athlete) Maria João, and Brazilian singer-songwriter Guinga have...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: July/2016
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2016
Vårdroppar
It's enough of a selling point to say that the liner notes for this album were written by the great...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2016
Algarabya
The obvious point of reference for La Banda Morisca (The Moorish Band) is the now-defunct Radio Tarifa, with whom they...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2016
Det Andre Rommet
The Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Erlend Apneseth's debut album, released in 2013, possessed a mostly traditional, acoustic inclination. This follow-up is...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2016
Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959
This four-disc set of Paul Bowles’ recordings in Morocco in 1959 reproduces – with eight additional pieces – the original...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
A former touring member of award-winning African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, cellist Leyla McCalla made her solo debut with...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Guy Buttery
In the same way that Antoni Gaudí's buildings were guided by nature, Guy Buttery draws his musical inspiration from the...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: July/2016
